Faculty

Carey Farquhar

Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Global Health
Professor, Medicine - Allergy and Infectious Dis.

206-542-4278

Education

MD Harvard University, 1994
MPH University of Washington, 2001

Contact

206-542-4278

Box 359909
Ninth & Jefferson Building
325 9th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104

Bio

Dr. Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH, is a professor at the University of Washington in the Departments of Global Health, Medicine, and Epidemiology. She received her MD at Harvard Medical School. She completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Washington, where she also earned a Masters in Public Health. She mentors US and Kenyan trainees and currently conducts research in Kenya on HIV testing and partner notification services, HIV and HCV diagnosis and access to treatment among persons who inject drugs, and non-communicable diseases among persons living with HIV.

She has published more than 210 peer-reviewed papers and is Director of the UW Kenya Research and Training Center and the International AIDS Research and Training Program (IARTP).  Dr. Farquhar teaches two courses in the School of Public Health -- HIV: A Multidisciplinary Approach and  Responsible Conduct of Research: Global and Local.   In addition, she sees patients one half-day per week at Madison Clinic and attends on the wards at Harborview Medical Center.

Research Interests

AIDS epidemiology and HIV prevention in Africa; heterosexual and vertical HIV transmission

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Acceptability and use determinants of digital health technologies for HIV services: a qualitative study of emergency care patients in Nairobi, Kenya.
(2025)
Front Digit Health 7(): 1697814
Smith-Sreen J, Timothy B, Ngila B, Maina JW, Pirirei S, Kinuthia J, Bukusi D, Waweru H, Bosire R, Farquhar C, Mello MJ, Aluisio AR

Improving HIV assisted partner services outcomes by eliciting additional partners after the initial encounter.
(2026)
PLOS Glob Public Health 6(2): e0004406
Otieno G, Masyuko S, Roy Paladhi U, Kariithi E, Sharma M, Kingston H, Lagat H, Katz DA, Wamuti B, Macharia P, Bosire R, Mugambi M, Weiner BJ, Farquhar C

HIV-1 3΄ polypurine tract mutations and integrase inhibitor resistance.
(2025 Nov 15)
AIDS 39(14): 1996-2013
Bishop MD, Xu L, Boyce CL, Drain PK, Farquhar C, Hawes SE, Frenkel LM, Gottlieb GS, Smith RA

HIV risk and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Nairobi: a cross-sectional study.
(2026 Jan 5)
BMC Infect Dis 26(1): 269
Mugambi C, Mbogo L, Sinkele W, Gitau E, Temu T, Farquhar C, Bukusi D, Kinuthia J, Monroe-Wise A

The Association of Mild Kidney Disease With Coronary Artery Disease Is Stronger for People Living With HIV.
(2026 Jan 1)
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 101(1): 95-102
Doshi S, Richardson BA, Nazzinda R, Mugerwa H, Bittencourt MS, Erem G, Narendrula A, Farquhar C, Kityo C, Longenecker CT

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